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75th Indiana Regiment Infantry - Regiment History

Basic History

Organized at Wabash, Ind., and mustered in August 19, 1862.
Left State for Louisville, Ky., August 21, thence moved to Lebanon, Ky.
Attached to 40th Brigade, 12th Division, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862.
2nd Brigade, 5th Division, Center 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863.
2nd Brigade, 5th Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1863.
2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, to October, 1863.
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-20. 1862.
Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8.
March to Bowling Green, Ky., October 26-November 3, thence to Scottsville November 10, and to Gallatin, Tenn., November 25.
Pursuit of Morgan to Glasgow, Ky., December 22, 1862, to January 2, 1863.

Moved to Cave City January 2, thence to Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tenn. Duty at Murfreesboro till June.
Expedition to Auburn, Liberty and Alexandria February 3-5.
Expedition to Woodbury March 3-8.
Expedition to Lebanon, Carthage and Liberty April 1-8,
Expedition to McMinnville April 20-30.
Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7.
Hoover's Gap June 24-26.
Tullahoma June 29-30.
Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16.
Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22.
Shellmound August 21. Narrows near Shellmound August 28. Reconnoissance from Shellmound toward Chattanooga August 30-31.
Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21.
Siege of Chattanooga September 22-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.
Mission Ridge November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25.
Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27.
Duty at Chattanooga and Ringgold, Ga., till May, 1864.

Reconnoissance from Ringgold toward Tunnel Hill April 29.
Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8.
Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Advance on Dallas May 18-25.
Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17.
Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5-7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3.
March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21.

Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Fayetteville, N. C., March 11. Averyshore March 16.
Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsbore March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14.
Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26.
Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24.
Mustered out at Washington, D.C., June 8, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 43 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 186 Enlisted men by disease. Total 232.